Archive for the 'Un-safe Products' Category

Breaking News - 6 patients die after IV injection of immunoglobulin in Nanchang

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
 
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SOH has ascertained that between May 22 and 28, 6 patients in Nanchang University Secondary Hospital in Jiangnan have died after IV injection of the human immunoglobulin PH4 produced by Boya Bio-Pharmaceutical Company in Jiangxi, batch number 20070514.

Breaking News - Mianzhu City Secretary of the CCP Committee pleades to earth quake victims not to appeal to higher levels

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
 
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On May 25, 2008 in Mianzhu City, Sichuan Communist Party Secretary Jiang Guohua knelt down to protesting parents of students victimized by the collapsed jerry-buildings in the tremor, pleaing not to take the issue to high-level authorities. Parents of 127 dead students said at the scene that although Jiang Guohua kneeled down to them, they [...]

Breaking News - Nearly 500 parents of students at Juyuan High School held the first memorial service for quake victims

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
 
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From 7:00 am to 1:00 pm on 27th May, nearly 500 parents of students held a solemn memorial service on the wreckage of Juyuan High School in Dujiangyan City of Sichuan Province for the victims buried in the collapsed school buildings; at the service, parents expressed their pursuit of investigation of the jerry-buildings that collapsed [...]

Breaking News - Chinese officials blasted as they publish causes behind school collapses

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
 
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After strong calls from Sichuan earthquake victims, the Sichuan Education Department published 5 causes behind the collapse of numerous schools. The publication attracted widespread attacks by internet users.

Breaking News - Students killed in dangerously constructed buildings

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
 
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In the recent Sichuan earthquake, the largest number of deaths and injuries took place inside schools. The schools buildings constructed with cheap materials could not withstand the shock, thus parents of victims face the ultimate grief.

Breaking News - Water leaking from Beijing’s main Olympic Stadium “Bird’s Nest”

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
 
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Water leaks have been found in various places of the main stadium of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Bird Nest. While officials say they are not ruling out any thing while they investigate the leaks, some experts have pointed out that the Bird Nest which cost $3.6 Billion Yuan was ill-designed: “this could be the [...]

Breaking News - International Police crack counterfeit case in South China

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, February 14th, 2008
 
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With the assistance of China police, the World Health Organization and scientists from Oxford University, the International Police Organization (Interpol) uncovered counterfeit antimalarial production and sales in southern China, which contain toxins.
This case code-named “Jupiter Action” mainly investigated the case where a large number of “Tiger Ester Artesunate Tablets” that are counterfeit produces of “Gui [...]

Breaking News - Toxic dumplings exported to Japan were poisoned by Hebei food factory workers

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, February 14th, 2008
 
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The case of toxic dumplings that China exported to Japan has new progress recently. The past few days, after the police of the task force from Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province, had investigated and revealed that it may be employees in the dumpling production line from Tian Yang food factory deliberately committing the crime due [...]

Edge on China 66 - Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
 
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Join us this week for a startling array of news direct from China. The SOH news team brings you the need to know headlines in this bulletin…

Breaking News - The “similar fake”. New name, same crime.

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, February 4th, 2008
 
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In recent years many businesses in China are making virtual exact copies of other products, with only slight changes made to the logo, so as to avoid litigation. The industry has named them “similar fakes”, instead of the direct counterfeits that are produced.